SAN JOSE -- Sharks defenseman Brent Burns spent much of the offseason recovering from hernia surgery. Apparently that prevented him from shaving or combing his hair.

Burns' team photo for the Sharks, with his unkempt hair and a beard that appeared to not have been trimmed or shaven in at least a month, made a splash on the internet and Twitter on Thursday after it was posted on Yahoo!'s Puck Daddy hockey blog.

Some of Burns' teammates were shown his most recent team picture, and mostly shrugged their shoulders.

"I've seen him grow it, but not keep it so long," said defenseman Dan Boyle, whose locker is next to Burns' inside the dressing room at the Sharks practice facility. "Maybe it was a lockout beard. I don't know what he's got going on there."

Burns has not been at the facility in recent days and Sharks coach Todd McLellan did not have an update on Burns' injury, other than saying Burns has been continuing to receive treatment for the injury.